New Album
Between The Shadow And The Sun
About the Album
I started to write some of the songs for the album during lockdown. 2020 was a profoundly hard year that felt at times, apocalyptic. Personally, I struggled with my own faith. I struggled to believe God was bigger than what was going on. And yet I was determined to find Him again in what felt like a changed world. That process of re-finding God took me to new places in my spiritual walk, my understanding of who God is and my understanding of what it means to have faith. The concept of the shadow and the sun became the tent that I wrote within. As a metaphor for the journey through life: from sunrise to sunset, through valleys of shadows and days of brilliant sunshine, as a metaphor for God’s glory in the midst of our frailty and humanity: His eternal sun to our temporal shadow; but also the internal wrestles within us (the shadow side of our soul where the gold lies in waiting. I found that on the hardest days, the consistency of a sunrise and sunset was enough to remind me of the faithfulness of God - his constancy, His kindness and mercy to give us another day. I wanted from this place, to write an album that spoke of the fine grain of faith, not the epic headlines, but the day to day wrestles, struggles, minor breakthroughs and incidental moments that define our walk with God. A thread of lament is sewn through this album because if we let it, our lament will deepen our faith, our compassion and our tenderness towards God. The thread of hope that entwines with lament is what pulls us through - and invites us to trust. To trust God in spite of pain, in the face of death, in the depths of great unknown - to trust Him that though our lives are but a vapour, they are also deeply significant, valued and imbued with His goodness. Whether you find yourself listening to this album in shadow or sun, I pray that you will find empathy, and the beauty that is to be found in every season of the soul.
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